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I currently have a Win NT 4.0 server set up to act as my network's printer server. While installing two of my shared printers I named them incorrectly. I deleted these two printers from my Printers directory, but I am unable to remove them from my Server Manager's list of shared resources. These two printers continue to be shown as available when my clients (running Win 95) go to install printers on their local machines. This causes confusion for my users and headaches for me. I have searched the reg istry on the server for the printers' names, hoping to be able to delete them at some root level, but have been unable to find any references to them. I have tried to recreate the resources and the shares, so that I can delate the share first,but I am unable to re-use the shares' names. I am using both HP JetAdmin and Axis's NetPilot, but these two printers do not show up within these pro grams. Does anyone know how I can delete these shared resources?

How do I remove a shared resource, i.e.

Have you shutdown your system since you deleted the shared printers. By shuting down for a few mintues they should not reinitialize when you power back up. Have you deleted the port that they were installed on?

How do I remove a shared resource, i.e.

Dennis is right in that you have to delete the port. Hightlight the printer and click on properties and then ports and delete the port the printer is attached to. If you have some print jobs on the queue for this printer you have to delete them first. HTH.

How do I remove a shared resource, i.e.

If you haven't already done so try the following steps. After each one check to see if you can re-install the printer.

1. Stop and restart the print spooler service.2. Restart the server.

If the above doesn't correct the problem you probably need to delete some entries in the registry.Using regedt32, check in the following registry location to see if the printer is still showing as installed, even though it's not showing in the printer control panel.The printer share name is located in the data contained in each "printer-name" key.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Control, Print, Printers.

How do I remove a shared resource, i.e.

Restarting the print spooler service did not remove the deleted printer from the list available to my clients. I can not find printer in question anywhere in the registry, including the location mentioned.

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